Big Secret Project V

…I was going to post (again) about the grand first bite of that huge record accumulation at Restore, 7 Gordon St., Dunedin Central at 10.am today….

…but was so excited about “selling” records again that I neglected to take pic’s of my very overladen car or the carefully shrouded, 20 crate lump all ready to table at the store…

…so here’s a picture I painted to look at whilst you wait for the doors to open…

…it’s one of a series of ten I did during lockdown last year…

…(cue elevator music)….

……see you at 10.a.m.

Ok Ok

…you’re right…it IS time I showed you some of the big secret project….after all I finished it last year…

…only to get bogged down by an over ambitious framing “option” that involved gluing a multitude of pieces of badly cut ply wood into a herringbone pattern….

..then filling in the gaps and cutting the whole shebang in to strips…

….then (the bit that isn’t getting done in the near future)…..(if ever!) shaping/sanding them and bunging them onto the finished art works….

…I haven’t looked at these pieces since January….

…these are the first two in a series of ten….

…they are 46cm by 46cm in their socks…

…ready?….

…right…

…ahem…

…without further ado, I’m proud present part one of the big secret project – revealed….

….(sure you’re ready?)….

…some stills…

…there are 10 pieces in the group…

…three more pairs and two stand alones….

…stay tuned.

Back To This Stuff

…the last of the preliminaries for the big secret project….

…you all remember the big secret project…..

…right?….

Sketchy Wednesday IV

…planning and plotting…

….plotting and planning….

…parts of the big secret project are still alive and kicking about the sketchbook…

…plus bonus side idea for a toneware piece…

…yay…sidetracked again!…

😜

For Those Of You That Will Find More Prevarication On The Big Secret Project Unpalatable

…..here’s the palette I’ve been using for the entire “big secret project” and some mildly distracting side projects along the way….

…mmmmmmmm….unpalatable prevarication…..

Stringing You All Along

…still stalling for time on the big secret project….

…in my defence, I did finish this piece this year….

….mmmm…flycedelic….

…has anyone else noticed how hard it is to light metallic paints for a clear, all encompassing snap shot?…..

…stay tuned for more prevaricating and fart-arseing around in our next episode….

For Months

…I’ve been walking past this piece hanging in the hallway, completed last year, and I was mistakenly under the impression that I’d posted it….

…was scrolling back a bit to remind myself how to blog and realised it wasn’t there…

…so now it is….

…and some stills to reduce the blur….

…all the flies are detailed in acrylic metallic paints…they glisten as you walk by….

….must now cross reference everything in the house with the back-blog to make sure it’s all been shown to you….

…(or could he just be stalling for time to complete that “big-secret-project” he keeps promising us?)….